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The direct detection of gravitational waves (GW) from merging binary black holes and neutron stars mark the beginning of a new era in gravitational physics, and it brings forth new opportunities to test theories of gravity. To this end, it…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-05-30 Atsushi Nishizawa

On the 17th of August 2017, the thriving discovery of gravitational waves event GW170817 and its optical counterpart GRB170817A, owing to coalescing of two neutron starts divulged a very small amount of difference around ${\cal…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-05-24 Kimya Sharafati , Soma Heydari , Kayoomars Karami

General relativity has predicted the existence of gravitational waves (GW), which are waves of the distortions of space-time with two degrees of polarization and the propagation speed of light. Alternative theories predict more…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-28 K. J. Lee

The question of whether the parity violation occurs in gravitational interaction has recently attracted much attention. In this paper, we investigate the scalar induced gravitational waves (SIGWs) in symmetric teleparallel gravity…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-08-21 Fengge Zhang

We develop a unified framework for testing gravity beyond General Relativity (GR) with continuous gravitational waves (CWs) from individual supermassive black hole binaries (SMBHBs). These long-lived, nearly monochromatic nanohertz signals…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-05-08 Qinyuan Zheng , Bjorn Larsen , Ellis Eisenberg , Chiara M. F. Mingarelli

The future ground- and space-based gravitational wave (GW) detectors offer unprecedented opportunities to test general relativity (GR) with greater precision. In this work, we investigate the capability of future ground-based GW detectors,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-07-18 Bo-Yang Zhang , Tao Zhu , Jian-Ming Yan , Jing-Fei Zhang , Xin Zhang

Any modification on gravity would affect not only gravitational wave (GW) generation but also GW propagation. Therefore, tests of general relativity (GR) with only GW generation or GW propagation will lead to an overestimate for deviations.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-09-22 Ke Wang

The observation of gravitational waves from the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) event GW150914 may be used to constrain the possibility of Lorentz violation in graviton propagation, and the observation by the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-08-03 John Ellis , Nick E. Mavromatos , Dimitri V. Nanopoulos

In modified gravity the propagation of gravitational waves (GWs) is in general different from that in general relativity. As a result, the luminosity distance for GWs can differ from that for electromagnetic signals, and is affected both by…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-06-06 Enis Belgacem , Yves Dirian , Stefano Foffa , Michele Maggiore

The spatial covariant gravities provide a natural way to including odd-order spatial derivative terms into the gravitational action, which breaks the parity symmetry at gravitational sector. A lot of parity-violating scalar-tensor theories…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-02-08 Tao Zhu , Wen Zhao , Anzhong Wang

According to General Relativity (GR), gravitational waves (GWs) should travel at the speed of light $c$. However, some theories beyond GR predict deviations of the velocity of GWs $c_{\rm gw}$ from $c$, and some of those expect vacuum…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-11-07 Tian-Yong Cao , Shu-Xu Yi

We analyse the speed of gravitational waves in coupled Galileon models with an equation of state $\omega_\phi=-1$ now and a ghost-free Minkowski limit. We find that the gravitational waves propagate much faster than the speed of light…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-06-21 Philippe Brax , Clare Burrage , Anne-Christine Davis

The violations of parity and Lorentz symmetries in gravity can change the propagating properties of gravitational waves (GWs) in the cosmological background, which can arise from a large number of parity- and Lorentz-violating theories. In…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-08-08 Tian-Chen Li , Tao Zhu , Wen Zhao , Anzhong Wang

This review explores modified theories of gravity, particularly $f(R)$ gravity, as extensions to General Relativity (GR) that offer alternatives to dark energy for explaining cosmic acceleration. These models generalize the Einstein-Hilbert…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-03-05 Rafid H. Dejrah

Gauss-Bonnet Dark Energy has been a popular model to explain the accelerated expansion of the Universe. Quite generically it also predicts the speed of gravitational waves $c_{GW}$ to be different from the speed of light. This fact alone…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-10-16 José Jaime Terente Díaz , Konstantinos Dimopoulos , Mindaugas Karčiauskas , Antonio Racioppi

We point out that the observed time delay between the detection of the signal at the Hanford and Livingston LIGO sites from the gravitational wave event GW150914 places an upper bound on the speed of propagation of gravitational waves,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-08-09 Diego Blas , Mikhail M. Ivanov , Ignacy Sawicki , Sergey Sibiryakov

Gravitational effective theories are essential for characterizing the space of deviations from General Relativity (GR). Testing these theories against fundamental principles, such as causality and unitarity, can yield constraints on the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-04-09 Alexander Cassem , Mark P. Hertzberg

We propose a new model-independent measurement strategy for the propagation speed of gravitational waves (GWs) based on strongly lensed GWs and their electromagnetic (EM) counterparts. This can be done in two ways: by comparing arrival…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-04-05 Xi-Long Fan , Kai Liao , Marek Biesiada , Aleksandra Piorkowska-Kurpas , Zong-Hong Zhu

The time delay between gravitational wave signals arriving at widely separated detectors can be used to place upper and lower bounds on the speed of gravitational wave propagation. Using a Bayesian approach that combines the first three…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-10-25 Neil Cornish , Diego Blas , Germano Nardini

General Relativity (GR) describes gravitation well at the energy scales which we have so far been able to achieve or detect. However, we do not know whether GR is behind the physics governing stronger gravitational field regimes, such as…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2012-09-13 Priscilla Canizares , Jonathan R. Gair , Carlos F. Sopuerta